Platform markets have enormous economic significance in society and global economy, and platform research attracts scholars from different communities. In this paper, we conduct a bibliometric analysis of 3490 platform papers which appear in top business, economics, and management journals from 1990 to 2019. Influential journals, institutions, landmark papers, citation bursts are identified from the analysis. In addition to scholars from economics, strategy, and technology management communities, scholars from marketing, information systems, and operations management also participate in platform research. Moreover, the results indicate that the research focus of platform evolves from supply-side product development, product design and open innovation, goes through demand-side two-sided markets, and centers on sharing economy in recent years. The viewpoint of platform research experiences a conversion from a research object to a research context. We further develop a future research agenda for platforms, the associated technologies and social impacts. Our bibliometric analysis contributes to the literature by offering an objective and systematic overview of platform research.

平台市场在社会和全球经济中具有巨大的经济意义，平台研究吸引了来自不同社区的学者。在本文中，我们对3490篇平台论文进行了文献计量分析，这些论文发表于1990年至2019年的顶级商业，经济和管理期刊中。从该分析中可以识别出有影响力的期刊，机构，地标性论文和引文爆发。除了来自经济学，战略和技术管理界的学者之外，来自市场营销，信息系统和运营管理的学者也参与了平台研究。此外，结果表明，平台的研究重点从供应方产品开发，产品设计和开放式创新发展，经过需求方的两面市场，并且近年来以共享经济为中心。平台研究的观点经历了从研究对象到研究环境的转变。我们将进一步针对平台，相关技术和社会影响制定未来的研究议程。我们的文献计量分析通过提供客观，系统的平台研究概述，为文献做出了贡献。